Events
1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.
Births
1773 - Thomas Young, English scientist
1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist
1876 - William Sealey Gosset, English chemist
1894 - Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician
1911 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1911 - Erwin Müller, German-born physicist
1928 - John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1881 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician
1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician
1972 - Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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February 28th
1704 - Birth of Louis Godin, French astronomer
Births
1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer
Births
1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist
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